“What they were essentially proposing was industrial icebreaking through winter months through some of the most sensitive Arctic habitat in Canada,” said Christopher Debicki, Nunavut project manager for The Pew Charitable Trusts’ Oceans North Canada. “It would have created a number of problems both for the community of Pond Inlet, which still travels on that sea ice and hunts on that sea ice as well as for many of the animals that that community depends on.”